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Artworks
PIERRE NAUYA (1914-1977) RANKIN INLET (KANGIQLINIQ)
Double Sided Work on Paper (On the Land and Building a Snow House, c. late 1960sacrylic and coloured pencil on textured wove paper, 12 x 16 in (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
inscribed in the lower left margin in graphite, in an unknown hand, "NO PERSON [? ?] [ᖤᓪ?ᑯ ?].LOT 56
ESTIMATE: $400 — $600Nauja’s paintings unspool across the surface with a rhythm that feels almost cinematic. They don’t centre a single moment, they accumulate them like memory arranged in horizontal layers. Though flat...Nauja’s paintings unspool across the surface with a rhythm that feels almost cinematic. They don’t centre a single moment, they accumulate them like memory arranged in horizontal layers. Though flat in composition, the works pulse with movement, each band a scene, each scene a gesture toward narrative. The structure recalls medieval narrative panels, not in content, but in form, inviting the viewer to read the work from left to right, as one might read a text. As the eye travels, the Arctic landscape seems to widen. Every new layer contributes to a growing sense of scale, until the painting feels less like an object and more like a place.Provenance
Private Collection, Toronto.
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